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| Brand: Sony
Category: Photography
Buy New: $1,598.33
New (1) Used (3) from $450.12
Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 1993
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Optical Zoom: 10
Display Size: 2.7
Maximum Focal Length: 54
Minimum Focal Length: 5.4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 7 x 6.4
MPN: DCRSR300
Model: SR300
UPC: 027242712423
EAN: 0027242712423
ASIN: B000M3GIJ2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good Overall Camcorder January 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pros:-
Delivered ontime and in perfect condition.
Easy to use touch screen interface.
Hard disk makes tapes and dvd's unnessesary.
Good picture in night mode.
Egonomically the camcorder is very nice. Comfortable to hold.
Records in standard mpeg format so transfering and playing files is easy.
Supplied software cataloges all media in monitored folders and shows them in calender format. Very nice to finding the files you want.
Cons:-
Low light shooting isnt as good as with my old sony 405 dvd camcorder.
Picture isnt as good as with the sony 405 dvd camcorder. Its still a good picture though.
Minor Annoyances:-
Now view finder so you have to use the screen to record.
The battery that comes with the camcorder only lasts about 90 mins. This doesnt sound to bad but when recording your kids opening presents on christmas day beleive me you wish you had more battery life.
You need the supplied docking station to charge the camcorder and to connect to the pc to transfer file off.
 VERY PLEASED January 6, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is our first camcorder. We spent a lot of time researching and reading reviews before making our selection. We want to thank each of you who took the time to write a review on this site, believe me when I say it greatly influenced our decision. The camera is light weight and easy to hold. The screen size is very good for "old eyes" and we really like the touch screen feature. Do take the time to download and read the owners manual. We actually printed ours out and put it in a ring binder. This camera will do a lot of really neat things if you know how to use it. If you are going to a lot of still shots with this camera you need something other than the basic program that comes with it. Get a good photo program to handle the still shots, we use adobe, but there are many out there. I think this camera takes as good a still shot as my Kodak 5mp still camera and am very pleased with the shots I am getting with it. For movies we use the Windows movie maker, I'm sure there are better programs out there but it is simple to use and already on the computer. We also use a "smart cards" for still photos, easier to download to the computer as it has a card slot. Don't know why sony elected to make their cards so you have to use an adaptor, we just use the standard size, same cards we use for our Kodak. We have had our share of messed up video and still shots, but not once has it been the camera's fault. We really used the camera a lot over the holidays, and can see a real improvement over the course of several weeks. This is a great camera, we anticipate many years of use and enjoyment. Highly recommend.
great first time digital camcorder December 31, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This purchase my first try at a digital video camera (our last was a VHS camera nearly 20 years ago). So after reviewing options about digital tape and mini-dvd, it seemed that the disk drive camera would be the better option. This has proved to be the case. This camera is easy to use. I am able to record quickly with virtually no waiting. File transfer was easy (home XP), and I created a dvd on my computer very easily. I have no regrets on this purchase. Quality of the image is great. I would have liked an eyepiece option, but the screen works fine.
Works OK but can't remove date/time stamp for playback December 23, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Work have like to run on my mac out of box,but main problem is cannot find option to remove date/time
stamp from played back movies,very annoying to see this so large on all playback with seconds changing.
Would like to be able to just add date at beginning on video then remove like on my old vhs camcorders. Dennis
Very good camera- super easy and conveniant to use December 12, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great camera. I absolutely love it. The still pictures it takes in photo mode are fantastic and the video as well as the audio quality is very good. It has trouble in lower light situations. Gives a grainy image in low light, which is to say in the house in the morning when some lights should be on but aren't or at dusk. I bought the light that goes with it so that isn't a problem anymore. Battery lasts a long time and the cradle is such a good idea. When the camera is in the cradle it is charging and hooked up to the computer. Instant viewing of videos just shot or make a dvd right after shooting.
You can take pictures while shooting video but they are not nearly as good of quality as when you have it in photo mode.
The only improvement I could think of that they could do is have the light built into the camera.
Here's a heads up---- I got a battery off of Ebay for $23. The NPH100 equivalent. It had a dumb cord that had to plug into the camera and then I found out that the camera wouldn't charge that battery at all ???? Sent it back and got a reasonably priced SONY battery off of Amazon.com which worked great.
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